Carl Spitzweg. Maids on the Alpine Pastures (‘Dirndln auf der Alm’), ca. 1875 (private collection, Italy).

Oil on canvas: 30 x 41 cm. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, October 2012. Unfinished

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Edvard Munch. Road in Åsgårdstrand (‘Straße in Åsgårdstrand’), 1901 (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Oil on canvas: 88.3 x 113.8 cm.

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Joachim Beuckelaer. The Cook (‘Köchin - im Hintergrund Christus bei Maria und Martha’), 1574 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on oak: 112.3 cm x 81.3 cm.

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David Jagger. Self-Portrait, 1928 (private collection).

Oil on board: 40.6 x 30.5 cm. Auctioned at Bonhams London, June 2017 for £ 221.000 (ca. € 251.000).

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Falk Gernegroß. Break (‘Pause’), 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Mixed media on MDF: 100 x 80 cm.

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Jacob van Ruisdael. View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields (‘Die Bleichen von Haarlem’), ca. 1670 (Kunsthaus, Zürich).

Oil on canvas: 62.5 x 55.2 cm.

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Anthony/ Anthoon/ Anthonis van Dyck. Charles-I with M. de St. Antoine, 1633 (Royal Collection Trust, London).

Oil on canvas: 370 x 270 cm(!).

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Caitlyn Murphy. Bedford Avenue, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Gouache on paper: ca. 40 x 30 cm.

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Alfred Thompson Bricher. Beach at Little Boar’s Head - New Hampshire, ca. 1875 (private collection).

Watercolour and gouache on paper: 27.9 x 55.2 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, December 2008.

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Giovanni Boldini. Portrait of Elizabeth Wharton-Drexel, 1905 (Preservation Society of Newport/ UK).

Oil on canvas: 218.4 x 116.8 cm. Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (1868-1944) ancestor of the Drexel banking family, was a Manhattan socialite. Married John Vinton Dahlgren (1869-1899) in 1889. Married Henry "Harry" Symes Lehr (1869-1929) in 1901, who was in fact gay. Married John Beresford, the 5th Baron Decies (1866-1944) in 1936.

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Jan Havicksz Steen. Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer, known as 'The Poultry Yard' ('De hoenderhof'), 1660 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 106.6 x 80.8 cm.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Still Life with Aster Bouquet (‘Stillleben mit Astern Strauss’), 1954 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 73 x 65 cm. Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, December 2015.

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Rogier van der Weyden. Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1460 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on wood: 34 x 25.5 cm(!). The empty gaze is caused by the lack of highlights in the eyes. There is no reflection on the cornea. Nor is there a touch of white on the lower lid to represent moisture.

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Domenico Ghirlandaio. Portrait of an old Man and a Boy (‘Portrait d'un vieillard et d'un jeune garçon’), ca. 1490 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Tempera on wood: 62 x 46 cm. Another portrait by Ghirlandaio (metalpoint drawing) of the same man is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Disfiguring scratches on the man’s forehead were removed during the 1996 restoration. One can imagine that children would be repelled by the man’s weathered face and his deformed nose. The delicate boy might have been a narrative invention, making this an even more dramatic portrait.

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Malcolm T. Liepke. Woman’s Hips, 2013 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 50.8 x 40.6 cm.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Spring Sun at Konginkangas, 1906 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 49 x 41 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, May 2013.

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Young Do Jeong. Bebe one more Time, 2016 (PKM Gallery, Seoul).

Mixed media on canvas: 208 x 185 cm.

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Franz von Lenbach. Portrait of Von Lenbach Family, 1903 (Lenbachhaus, Munich).

Oil on board: 122 x 96 cm.

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Giorgio Morandi. Still Life ('Natura morta'), 1954 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 30.8 x 35.2 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, October 2011.

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Michaël Borremans. The Ear, 2011 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 42 x 53 cm.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. Tower of Babel (‘Turmbau zu Babel’), 1563 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on oak: 114.4 x 155.5 cm. The other Bruegel tower of Babel at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: here.

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George Romney. Portrait of Lady Altamont, 1788 (Tate Britain, London).

Oil on canvas: 96.4 x 83.1 cm.

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Bartholomeus van der Helst. Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker (‘Portret van Gerard Andriesz Bicker’), ca. 1642 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 94 x 70.5 cm.

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Sarah Goodridge. Beauty revealed, 1828 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Watercolour on ivory: 6.7 x 8 cm(!). Sexting in 1828. This miniature was never meant to go public, and one might argue it’s inappropriate to have it exhibited. Goodridge (who was a miniaturist by profession) gifted this self-portrait to her love interest Daniel Webster. His heirs auctioned it in 1981, and the new owners transferred it to the Metropolitan in 2006. Goodridge was aged 40 when she painted this miniature.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva seen from Chexbres (‘Genfersee von Chexbres aus’), 1905 (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Oil on canvas: 82.1 x 104.2 cm. Other versions from the same view: here and here.

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Susannah Martin. Roejan Creek, 2013 (artist’s portfolio).

Acrylic on paper: 31 x 40 cm.

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